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Book SynopsisThe Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2018, presents the journal’s best historical research and writing over the past calendar year. The volume is designed for institutions, scholars, and enthusiasts to provide a con- venient overview of the latest research and scholarship in American Revolution studies. The forty-one articles in the 2018 edition include: Anti-Indian Radicalization in the Early American West, 1774–1795 by Darren R. Reid The Setauket Raid, December 1777 by Phillip R. Giffin The 3rd New Jersey Regiment's Plundering of Johnson Hall by Philip D. Weaver A Proposed Alliance of the Knights of Malta and the United States of America by Bruce Ware Allen Country Crowds in Revolutionary Massachusetts: Mobs and Militia by Ray Raphael Lafayette: An Acerbic Tongue or an Incisive Judge of Character? by Gene Procknow Admiral Rodney Ousts the Jews from St. Eustatius by Louis Arthur Norton Preventing Slave Insurrection in South Carolina & Georgia, 1775–1776 by Jim Piecuch The “P” is for Profit: Revolutionary War Privateers and the Slave Trade by Michael Thomin The Remarkable Spanish Pilgrimage of John Adams by John L. Smith, Jr. Thomas Paine, Deism, and the Masonic Fraternity by Shai Afsai A Fresh Look at Major Patrick Ferguson by Wayne Lynch Displaced: The Donation People of 1775 by Katie Turner Getty
Trade ReviewPraise for the Journal of the American Revolution Annual Volumes: "An excellent overview of recent scholarly findings and historical understanding of America's founding. . . . A welcome contribution to public and college library history collections, highly recommended."--Library Bookwatch
